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Australian Government Consolidates Data Center Using XenSource

Australian Council Deploys XenEnterprise in Order to Consolidate Windows and Linux Servers and Build in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Capabilities

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - October 3, 2007) - XenSource, Inc., the leading provider of
enterprise-class virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen®
hypervisor, today announced that the Shires of Dardanup, Harvey, and
Donnybrook/Balingup, government councils located in Western Australia, have
adopted XenSource in their data centers for consolidation of Linux and
Windows terminal servers and business continuity. Since deploying
XenEnterprise, the Shires have cut server spending, reduced management
time, and increased performance.

"We are only two months into deployment and there have already been a
number of benefits to using XenEnterprise," said Stephen Eaton, Information
Technology Officer of the Shires of Dardanup, Harvey, and
Donnybrook/Balingup. "I was at the point where I was going to have to buy
more servers as our infrastructure was growing and the services I needed to
provide to the staff of the councils were growing. Virtualizing our data
centers with XenEnterprise has allowed us to do what we want."

Eaton and the Shires had looked at VMware but chose XenSource because of
its exceptional price point, and features, including support of both Linux
and Windows operating systems. Since deployment, the Shires have
experienced a significant reduction in time spent managing servers,
substantial savings on the cost of new servers, and reduced server down
time due to less stress placed on power resources and the ability to back
up to allocate services to a newly provisioned machine within minutes.
Recently, Eaton has been able to reinforce the Shires' business continuity
and disaster recovery infrastructure with XenEnterprise v4 features like
live migration with XenMotion and live disk image snapshotting.

"Our customers choose XenSource solutions for a variety of reasons," said
John Glendenning, VP of international sales for XenSource. "Performance,
ease of use, and functionality are just a few of the benefits customers
tell us about, but we also see our value with customers like the Shires
coming from our ability to provide a low barrier to entry for users, grow
with their needs through easy product upgrades and offer a strong product
roadmap."

About XenSource Virtualization Products

For customers seeking to reduce the number of under-utilized servers in
their IT infrastructure, XenSource virtualization products help
dramatically reduce server hardware and operating costs through savings on
power, space, cooling, and system maintenance. Offering high performance
virtualization within an easy to use virtualization platform, XenSource
supports both Windows and Linux servers. XenSource products are based on
the Xen® hypervisor, and offer easy to use Windows and Linux
virtualization solutions with built-in virtual machine lifecycle
management, at breakthrough price and performance. XenSource products are
being adopted worldwide in enterprises to increase server utilization,
support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of ownership.

About XenSource, Inc.

XenSource is the leading provider of enterprise virtualization solutions
based on Xen™, founded by the inventors of the open source
virtualization engine known as the Xen™ hypervisor. Companies worldwide
deploy and trust XenSource products to increase resiliency and reliability
of their business operations, improve the speed and agility of their IT
investments, improve security and realize the TCO savings that result from
server consolidation, increased utilization, and reduced complexity in the
datacenter. For more information, visit http://www.xensource.com.

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XenEnterprise High Availability, XenEnterpriseHA and XenMotion are
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